ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,871, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hammel Cos. Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Apparatus and method for generating an automated output as a function of an attribute datum and key datums" was invented by Scott R. Sullivan (Pittsburgh) and David Dean Yunger (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for generating an automated output as a function of an attribute datum and key datums. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a first datum comprising a plurality of unstructured data, classify, using...